18 Barbie Dolls Full of Explosive by ISIS Found in Baghdad

ISIS was planning to use booby-trapped dolls for a bombing plot during Arbaeen om Baghdad.

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What the reality is?

18 dolls, stuffed with bombs were seized by the security forces in a predominantly Shiite suburb in northeastern Baghdad. All dolls were meant to be scattered on the roads to plot bomb blast during Arbaeen – a Shia Muslim religious observance. ISIS was planning to plant the bomb on a road towards Karbala from Baghdad. Arbaeen, which this year will be held on December 3, is a Shia religious observance that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashura to commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad.

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During Arbaeen at least 20 million people walk to the city of Karbala in Iraq, which make it one of the largest pilgrimage gatherings on Earth.